Quick reminder to the folks here in San Diego that tonight’s game against the Diamondbacks will be televised on Channel 4 at 6 p.m. PT. Until then, here’s what’s going on: Left Field Who’s in left? Good question. The assumption has been Terrmel Sledge, but he’s really just the leading candidate headed into spring training. [...]
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Spring Training Notes (26 Feb 07)
Happy Monday. Lots going on today; let’s get to it. Cameron’s Preparation Padres center fielder Mike Cameron offers his thoughts on getting ready for the season, including this gem: Cameron takes more pitches than he takes swings early in spring, something he said he picked up from John Olerud when they both played for the [...]
Spring Training Notes (21 Feb 07)
Have we hit all the cliches yet? Only a month till the season starts; better get cracking. We just need to give 110%, take it one day at a time, and stay within ourselves. And if that doesn’t work, we can always look at pretty pictures. Catcher Competition One of last year’s pleasant surprises, Josh [...]
Padres’ 2007 Opening Day Roster: Our Best Guesses
We had 21 entrants in our little contest. Here is the consensus: SP: Clay Hensley (21), Greg Maddux (21), Jake Peavy (21), David Wells (21), Chris Young (21) RP: Heath Bell (11), Doug Brocail (13), Trevor Hoffman (21), Scott Linebrink (20), Cla Meredith (21), Royce Ring (19), Scott Strickland (13) C: Josh Bard (21), Rob [...]
Padres Pitching Projections for 2007, Part 2
We covered the Padres hitting projections on Friday and Saturday, and started the pitching projections on Sunday. Now we’ll finishing up the pitchers. Heath Bell ERA Bill James 3.75 Chone 3.23 Marcel 4.88 ZiPS 4.08 Average 3.99 Bell has had some nice peripherals in the minors, which I suspect has something to do with [...]
Wednesday Links (3 Jan 07)
Slow news day, so we’ll run our link roundup a little early this week. Before we do that, though, a quick update on the book: I just finished Chapter 3 yesterday, and I’m about halfway through Chapter 6 (I’m working out of sequence in part because the Hall of Fame vote hasn’t taken place yet [...]
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Padres, Mets Swap Spare Parts
The Padres have traded outfielder Ben Johnson and right-handed reliever Jon Adkins for two bullpen arms, lefty Royce Ring and righty Heath Bell. Although not as interesting as, say, Don’t Fear the Reaper performed on ukelele, this is one of those minor deals that could help both clubs. Other Reaction: Metsblog (via Baseball Musings) Baseball [...]
Baker Added to Managerial Mix; Padres Sign Minor-League Free Agents
As you probably know by now, Dusty Baker will interview for the Padres managerial vacancy on Monday. Considering Baker brings a lot of the same things to the table that the departed Bruce Bochy did, this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. Okay, actually it doesn’t make any sense to me. David Pinto [...]
Playoff IGD: Cardinals @ Mets (12 Oct 06)
first pitch: 5:05 p.m., PT television: FOX matchup: Jeff Weaver (8-14, 5.76 ERA) vs Tom Glavine (15-7, 3.82 ERA) buy tickets While the Tigers were busy beating the A’s again in Oakland, the first game of the NLCS was postponed due to rain. They’ll try it again tonight, with the same scheduled starters. Former Padres [...]
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